Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 18

And so the poor old horse had plenty to eat, and lived--till he died.

Who acts: poor old horse, horse · What happens: have, eat, live, die · To what, where: plenty

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old horse, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 plenty	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lived	cc
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 died	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 died	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 died	nsubj
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lived	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	the poor old horse	plenty	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	the poor old horse not said here	plenty not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	past	the poor old horse not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	die	past	horse		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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